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FOODBANK HANDOUTS DOUBLE, DOES THE GOVERNMENT CARE--NO

 
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:21 am    Post subject: FOODBANK HANDOUTS DOUBLE, DOES THE GOVERNMENT CARE--NO Reply with quote

Foodbank handouts double as more families end up on the breadlineTrussell Trust says two centres a week are opening in UK to give food parcels to working families struggling to cope

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Patrick Butler, social policy editor
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 April 2012 06.00 BST Article history
A foodbank in Salisbury, Wiltshire. idiot: Martin Godwin for the Guardian
Britain's leading foodbank network, the Trussell Trust, says every single day it is handing out emergency food parcels to parents who are going without meals in order to feed their children, or even considering stealing food to put on the table, as the government's austerity measures start to bite.

The number of people to whom it had issued emergency food parcels had doubled in the last 12 months and was set to increase further as rising living costs, shrinking incomes and welfare cuts take their toll, the trust said, as it published its annual report, which is fast becoming a barometer of social deprivation.

Two foodbanks a week opened up in the UK over the last 12 months to meet an explosion in demand from families living on the breadline, the trust said. The charity currently oversees 201 foodbanks run on a franchise basis across the UK, up from 100 in 2010-11.

It fed 128,000 people last year, distributing 1,225 tonnes of food donated by the public, schools and businesses, and estimates that half a million individuals a year will be in receipt of a food parcel by 2016.

"Foodbanks are seeing people from all walks of life turning to us for help when they hit crisis," said Chris Mould, the executive chair of the Trussell Trust.

"The current economic situation means that times are tough for many. Every day we meet parents who are skipping meals to feed their children or even considering stealing to stop their children going to bed hungry.

"It is shocking that there is such a great need for foodbanks in 21st century Britain, but the need is growing."

Foodbank parcels contain enough non-perishable food to last the recipient a minimum of three days. Each box � there are two sizes, for families and individuals � typically contains pasta, rice, tinned vegetables, fruit and fish, longlife juice and milk. Clients can receive a maximum of three boxes before they are referred on to Citizen's Advice or other aid agencies.

Typically, those presenting with vouchers at foodbanks � all are referred by health professionals, social workers, Jobcentre advisers or local charities � are not homeless or destitute but working families struggling on low incomes, or on benefits, said Mould.

"Five years ago debt was the issue. Now it is benefit delays and delays in getting crisis loans. There are serious inefficiencies in the welfare system," he said.

In previous years, the vast majority of foodbank customers came just once, to help them over a temporary crisis, said Mould, but the charity was now seeing more repeat customers. "If you are on a low income and you are dealing with a deterioration in that as a result of higher food prices, higher rents and falling wages, you are going to get more people who just cannot hold it together."

Gavin Kibble, the project manager at Coventry foodbank, which fed 7,500 people in 2010-11, its first year of operation, described the foodbank as a "barometer of the state of the nation".

He added: "I think we have got a kind of perfect storm of social circumstances at the moment. Individually, they would not be so much of a problem but together they are causing a lot of hardship to a lot of people."

And this is in a Country that pays Fat Cat Banksters a Kings Ransom every year for doing a very ordinary job, very badly!

Where is posh boy Dave's "Big Society" now?


When will the people wake up and realise what is happening - only when it affects them? This government have no idea what it is to go hungry, to be unable to meet the bills, to face homelessness and to risk imprisonment for stealing bread for the kids - if they did, maybe they would have some compassion.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is an interesting comment regarding the Trussell Trust .




26 April 2012 7:38AM
The government are forcing job centre staff to send everyone refused a crisis loan to the Trussell Trust (who happen to be chaired by a Tory Mayor)

The government is abolishing the social fund (crisis loans when emergencies happen eg your child gets cancer, your home gets flooded, a death in the family)

2.69 million English Families got crisis loans in 2010 (figures from the DWP minister)

The government's consultation paper on abolishing crisis loans specifically states councils will now get the criss loan money and they don't have to give it to people who need it and instead should send them to the Trussell Trust.

This government's policy is - when you have a short term financial crisis you will no longer get a short term loan frpm the DWP but be sent to a Tory controlled foodbank - the Tories will decide IF your family get to eat and WHAT your family will eat (no fresh food in the Tory Controlled Food Parcels)

Now as crisis loans (they don't want councils to give you) are actually also specifically provided to help people with gas and electricity metres to pay for power - especially in winter - 2.69 million families are in danger of not only freezing but being left unable to actually cook the food in the food parcel - as they have no power!

The Trussell Trust is touring he country charging Churches �1500 to use their "foodbank service" - very charitable

And the Trussell Trust insists churches MUST use their "brand" and also pay an annual fee

Why are a "charity" controlled by a Tory Mayor going round the country frantically setting up foodbanks

Is this in fact a well co-ordinated Tory party replacement for benefits - we all pay national insurance - which is our insurance policy for when crisis hits - be it unemployment, sickness, natural disaster, disability - and we pay a hell of a lot of money - 12% of our wages

This government is delberately setting up these foodbanks - co-ordinated by the Tory chaired trussell trust because they know their policies and dropping wages and rising rents will mean people are being starved in Britain

The Tory Party policies - 2.69 million English Families will be forced to go cap in hand to the Trussell Trust -

So when you are sick or your child has cancer and you are frantically travelling to hospitals which are getting further and further from your home - you will also have to make the time to jump on a bus to the next town to get a food parcel to feed your other children - because the government is advising councils - don't actually give out the crisis loan money the DWP always provided - no send them to Tory Mayor Noel Atkins to queue for food they cannot cook -

No doubt there will be big society brazier banks for families to huddle around because no crisis loan -no power

Also - the Trussell Trust only gives a maximum of 3 food parcels - so when crisis loans are removed the govenrment's new crisis loan replacement service will be 3 strikes and your out

It does not matter that crisis loans are repaid and as a result people can get them as often as they need - no once you've had your 3 food parcels - you and your children can starve the rest of the year - despite the fact as a working parent you pay 12% national insurance

(And did you know the food for the poor programme in the EU - where people go for FRESH food - David Cameron is fighting to get this abolished.

This EU programme actually gives fresh food - even in Paris - this costs 0.1% of EU Common Agricultural policy - and David Cameron is fighting to have it abolished - saw it on Euro News - SKY and the BBC won't tell us what a caring man David Cameron is. No doubt he wants to roll out the Trussell Trust across the whole of Europe - they are already in Bulgaria - I'm sure Tory Mayor Noel Atkins does not tell people forced to the Trussell Trust that his party is campaigning to remove food provided by the EU which is feeding starving people across Europe)

And why is our government not setting up these EU FRESH FOOD BANKS and fobbing our people off with food dontated - if there is EU money available to give the poor FRESH FOOD then British people are entitled to this EU money too - if Paris can get this money and set up fresh food banks from EU money then so can Britain

26 April 2012 8:05AM
European Union on Tuesday failed to reach an agreement on whether to renew a programme that delivers food aid for the poor, with opponents of the scheme claiming responsibility for social welfare issues should rest with national governments.
By News Wires (text)

AFP - A programme delivering food aid to 13 million poverty-hit Europeans was left in limbo Tuesday due to opposition from six austerity-driven EU nations, Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said.

Farm ministers from the 27-nation bloc failed to clinch a deal at talks in Brussels to renew the so-called European programme of assistance to the poor, a scheme dating back to 1987, thrown into jeopardy by a court ruling in April.

"We have not registered a compromise," said Sawicki, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency. "Six countries are clearly opposed."

Sawicki did not name the nations but diplomats earlier told AFP that Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Sweden would block a deal.

In Paris, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country is one of the top recipients of the aid with Italy and Poland, said it was "unacceptable for Europe to abandon its weakest citizens."

At stake at the Brussels talks was the future of the food aid, which is to be pared down from a yearly 480 million euros to 113.5 million euros for 2012 and 2013, due to a ruling handed down by the European Court of Justice.

Acting on a request from Germany, the court stated in April that the programme could only use supplies from existing EU food stocks to feed people unable to afford proper meals.

Stocks have fallen in recent years following reforms to the bloc's CAP farm support scheme to make it more market-oriented, forcing the use of EU money to buy supplies on the market to feed the hungry.

"We have nothing against helping the needy but that is a part of social policy, which is the responsibility of each member state," said a diplomat from one of the austerity-conscious objecting nations.

EU Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Ciolos said failing a last-ditch agreement later Tuesday, the issue would be put to a summit in October to avoid the 80 percent cut in food aid over the next two years.

The EU executive has finessed plans to finance the aid from 2014, he added.

"It will be difficult to explain why a 25-year-old programme is being blocked for two years because some member states do not want to assume their political responsibilities," he said.

"Not only can we save this European food aid but we must do so," said French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire before heading to Brussels for the talks.

"I am appalled by the decision to scrap this aid for the most deprived."

In July, the European parliament too pleaded with the EU to avoid slashing aid to 240 food banks and charities that help feed the hungry in 19 of the bloc's 27 member states.

"Halting an existing and functioning aid scheme abruptly without prior notice or preparation has a major impact on the most vulnerable EU citizens," the parliament said in a resolution adopted with an overwhelming 548-52 majority.

Didier Piard, a spokesman for the Red Cross in France, said the 80 percent cut in funding "means charities risk being able to distribute 130 million fewer meals".

And Olivier Berthe, who heads prominent French charity for the hungry, Restos du Coeur, said that "we face an unprecedented threat at a time when we have never seen as much demand for help

I am beginning to think that there is a hidden agenda here, anyone have any ideas?
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